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A well defined fursona
Fineas:
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--- Quote from: Sithy on 28.05.2015, 15:28:31 ---I feel a well defined fursona is....
whatever you damn well please.
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100% agree. People that try to dictate other people's (very personal!) choices kinda piss me off.
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Ok, I see.
Could you elaborate?
Cheetah:
--- Quote from: Fineas on 02.06.2015, 15:58:27 ---
--- Quote from: Runo on 01.06.2015, 20:42:09 ---
--- Quote from: Sithy on 28.05.2015, 15:28:31 ---I feel a well defined fursona is....
whatever you damn well please.
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100% agree. People that try to dictate other people's (very personal!) choices kinda piss me off.
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Ok, I see.
Could you elaborate?
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I'm guessing, but I think he's annoyed by people trying to define what a "real" furry or a "proper" persona is based on narrow personal criteria, ignoring the factual social norms that REALLY define it :) It's a common mistake, and it wouldn't be worth mentioning if it didn't occur so often, and if didn't frequently result in sometimes funny, but sometimes outright embarassing overreactions, such as this:
(Recently found in someone's FA journal.)
Fineas:
Well if that is it that I can understand.
Sounds like a pretty harsh thing to do; just block people out because they don't fit too your 'standards'.
I find it even more depressing to see within the furry community. We are already not the most popular fandom on the net and common media.
That while anime and fantasy for example have been adopted pretty well overall.
So I would love to see as many people get along in our 'little group' as possible. We will have enough hardship without 'fighting' one another.
Sounds like a rant from 2, about Animal Spirits:
http://www.ranting-gryphon.com/Audio/Rants/2rant-animal_spirits.mp3
Short summery: Before he was a furry he was in the werespirit community, that at some point went as far as saying that you can not have an animal spirit that isn't native to your location.
Which 2 (obviously) opposes to because he thinks that's completely bonkers.
Zefiro:
I think I joined the fandom before the word "(fur)sona" became fashionable. We just called it our "character" back then, which is obviously a term borrowed from theater/roleplay, to refer to the not-human-part.
I'm not sure I know what a "fursona" IS. Do I even have one? Up till now, I'd have synonymed it to furry character.
I am a dragon. Winged, green, fire-breathing. Dragons are cool creatures, and that's nice, but basically I... just am. I didn't "chose" the dragon for any reasons, especially not because I associated power, strength, elegance, whatever with it which I saw on myself or wished it would be there. A less accessible part of my brain just decided for me, puzzling myself. I'm not special, I'm not magic, not shapeshifting, not hybrid. I don't have cool tatoos, scars, or colors. Besides being one of the coolest creatures there are *g*, I'm rather boring and mundane. I am just one in a douzens of other furs. And I struggle to life, searching for friends and happyness, using what I have and am, not trying to out-compete by how special I am. Could I even?
I regard myself as a furry lifestyler. Nearly everyone around me - friends, family, work - knows my dragon side. I regularly do fire-breathing. Tried paragliding. I own a fursuit. Lots of dragon pictures, statues, plushies. I just am - a single being, in a human world, in a human body, with this nice hobby pretending to be draconic.
So I don't have a background story (this would imply there's a difference between me and my character, which I actually try to reduce), no special visual differentiators (similar to me not having them among 7 billion humans), and especially no "character to play". I just AM - I'm myself, for myself, not as an amusement of others or a protagonist in some kind of fantasy story.
If this means that the word "fursona" does not fit me, so be it. I don't need this word. I'm a Furry nonetheless.
*purrrrr*
Cheetah:
Fursona is the fancy-pantsy fandom neologism for "furry alter ego". In the old days (mid-90s) you'd go by your real name, and sometimes BBS handle or nickname, but nobody would necessarily associate any kind of animal species with it. You'd have a "character" or "avatar" on furryMUCK, and that was explicity your role playing character. Some people played multiple characters at the same time, or changed characters. And quite often, they did not think of their characters as an online representation of their real life persona, but a very distinct roleplaying character specifically created for that purpose. When the former FurryMUCK-Community began to spread to IRC (where playing a fictional character was considered "faking" and not legitimate roleplay), the idea of a "personal furry" was born - an online personality that was representative of your true self, and not a fictional character you made up.
That was still years before costuming became a thing.
The idea that everyone of us has one definitive "fursona" that defines our virtual self / inner self just like our "persona" that defines our physical self / outer self is a relatively recent development - I'd say, something that evolved within the last 10 years or so.
Funny enough, with fursuiting being the number one fandom activity these days, the trend is diluting again, as your physical appearance is now as interchangeable as your virtual / imagined / spiritual appearance, and people get a lot of fun out of playing characters distinctively different from their regular selves.
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